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• USA: Warrant Targeting Assange Supporter Reveals Scope Of US Government Campaign Against WikiLeaks
  22 December 2019, by siawi3

  “Assange is the canary in the coalmine.../... If we lose Julian Assange, we risk the atmosphere becoming poisonous for all of us. First they came for…”

• ‘SCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THE SKY
  20 September 2020, by siawi3

  It is one of the defining moments in the story both of rock and of black expression. Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock 1969, finishing his set by deconstructing the Star Spangled Banner. A black man on stage, claiming the anthem as his own, stripping it of its reverence, and, against the backdrop of the Vietnam War – in the midst of the song Hendrix recreated the sound of gunfire and falling bombs – and of American cities burning in civil rights protests, infusing it with fury and pride. Hendrix, as Paul Gilroy has observed, was always defined by “transgressions of redundant musical and racial rules”.

• Pope Francis Signals ’Historic’ Shift for Catholic Church, Publicly Supporting Civil Unions for Same-Sex Couples
  23 October 2020, by siawi3

  In the documentary “Francesco,” which premiered at the Rome Film Festival Wednesday, the pope called for a “civil union law” to ensure gay and lesbian couples have the same legal rights as married straight couples.

• ORIENTALISM AND AHISTORICISM
  4 May 2021, by siawi3

  Culture and Imperialism, If you know in advance that the African or Iranian or Chinese or Jewish or German experience is fundamentally integral, coherent, separate, and therefore comprehensible only to Africans, Iranians, Chinese, Jews or Germans you first of all posit as essential something which, I believe, is both historically created and the result of interpretation – namely the existence of Africanness, Jewishness, or Germanness, or for that matter Orientalism or Occidentalism.

• The Kids Are Reimagining International Solidarity
  12 June 2021, by siawi3

  Millennial and Gen Z activists are connecting their struggles at home to the workings of US empire in Palestine, Haiti, Colombia, and other countries.
  “Solidarity means we’re all together in this. The colonial violence of Israel and the US is a threat to all of us as Palestinians, as Arabs, as women, as queer people and as people of color.”

• France : Selon l’Ifop, 65 % des lycéens musulmans placent l’islam au-dessus des lois de la République
  26 décembre 2021, par siawi3

  Selon l’Ipsos, la place que la religion tient dans la vie de ces adolescents peut entrer en conflit avec leur perception de la République et de ses lois, puisque 40 % des lycéens déclarent partager l’affirmation selon laquelle « les normes et règles édictées par votre religion sont plus importantes que les lois de la République »

• The global rise of right-wing religio-political movements
  22 December 2019, by siawi3

  Fear is the ethos of this neoliberal religiosity

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  20 mars 2020, par siawi3

  La trahison de la gauche communautariste permet aux islamistes de gagner du terrain.

• ON DESCRIBING THE OTHER
  4 May 2021, by siawi3

  ‘Respect’ for the Other has come for many to mean a refusal to judge others’ values or norms. It is not too great a leap from that to the argument that backward habits, reactionary institutions, illogical beliefs, all be defended on the grounds that they may not make sense in our culture but they do in others’…

• INTELLECTUAL CHARLATANS & ACADEMIC WITCH-HUNTERS
  4 May 2021, by siawi3

  Even intellectual charlatans with questionable political views deserve protection from academic witch-hunters.

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